doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 1 March ak Agenda Date: Authors: NameAffiliationsAddressPhone Donald Eastlake Huawei Technologies 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA USA

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 2 IEEE ak/GLK: Enhancements For Transit Links Within Bridged Networks Macau, China March, 2016 Chair & Editor: Donald E. Eastlake 3 rd (Huawei) Vice Chair: Mark Hamilton (Ruckus Wireless) Vice Editor: Norm Finn (Cisco) Secretary: Vacant Mailing list:

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 3 Venue Sands Venetian, Macau, China

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda TGak Timeline At Start of Meeting –March 2015 – Initial WG Letter Ballot –February 2016 – WG Recirculation –May 2016 – Sponsor Ballot Pool Formation –July 2016 – MEC/MDR Done –September 2016 – Initial Sponsor Ballot –January 2017 – Sponsor Recirculation –March 2017 – Final WG & ExecComm & RevCom Approval March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 4

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda REMOTE PARTICIPATION By Special Dispensation of the Chair, ak is being permitted to have a few sessions with remote participation. This permission is one time for this WG meeting only. Remote participants cannot vote or make motions and this does not count towards voting qualification. We will be using the standard account. Information will be mailed to the TGak mailing list. March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 5

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda Sessions DayTimeRoom MondayEVE (Cancelled)TBD TuesdayAM1 (Remote Participation)Florence 2304 TuesdayPM1Florence 2304 TuesdayPM2 (Remote Participation)Florence 2304 WednesdayPM1 (Remote Participation) Joint with ARC Sicily 2402 ThursdayAM1 Joint with ARC and Milan ThursdayAM2Florence 2304 ThursdayPM2 (Remote Participation)Florence 2304 March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 6

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 7 Tuesday, 15 March :00– 10:00, Florence 2304 Room, L1 Call meeting to order at 08:25 –Remote participation allowed for this session. See Slide 5. Remote Participants: Philippe Klein (Broadcom), Richard Roy (SRA) Appointment of Secretary –Donald Eastlake (Huawei) will take notes. Review of IEEE 802 and Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. –No response to call for potentially essential patents. Attendance Recording Reminder Agenda approved. Which other 11ak sessions should allow remote participation? –PM2 sessions Tuesday and Thursday.

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 8 Tuesday, 15 March :00– 10:00, Florence 2304 Room, L1 Presentations and discussion to resolve comments and improve the TGak Draft –Richard Roy (SRA) lead a discussion of some ideas based on changes in architecture that would simplify many of the diagrams in 11-14/562r /251r3 was also discussed to a limited extent. Everyone involved agreed to go off and think about it and discuss during later sessions. Recess until 13:30 today

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform  All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants [Note: Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2]: “Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represent. “Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged No duty to perform a patent search March 2016 Slide 9Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei Technologies

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual Material about the patent policy is available at If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at or visit This slide set is available at March 2016 Slide 10Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei Technologies

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda Call for Potentially Essential Patents If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: Either speak up now or Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or Cause an LOA to be submitted March 2016 Slide 11Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei Technologies

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. Technical considerations remain primary focus Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details. March 2016 Slide 12Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei Technologies

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 13 Tuesday, 15 March :30 – 15:30, Florence 2304 Room, L1 Call meeting to order Appointment of Secretary –Donald Eastlake (Huawei) took notes. Call for essential patents –No response. Attendance Recording Reminder Agenda approved unanimously. Moved, to approve 11-16/189r0 as the minutes of the Atlanta TGak meeting in January. –Approved by unanimous consent.

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 14 Tuesday, 15 March :30 – 15:30, Florence 2304 Room, L1 Moved, to approve the minutes of teleconferences since January: –11-16/258r0 “11ak Telecon Minutes ” –11-16/259r0 “11ak Telecon Minutes ” –11-16/306r0 “11ak Telecon Minutes ” –11=16/307r0 “11ak Telecon Minutes ” –Approved unanimously. Review Re-circulation LB218 re-circulation ballot comments on Draft D2.0, 11-15/556r21. –Review of some of the new Editorial comments from LB218. Recess until 16:00 today

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 15 Tuesday, 15 March :00 – 18:00, Florence 2304 Room, L1 Call meeting to order –Remote participation allowed for this session. See Slide 5. Remote Participants: Philippe Klein (Broadcom), Richard Roy (SRA) Appointment of Secretary –Donald Eastlake took notes. Call for essential patents –No response. Attendance Recording Reminder Agenda approved by unanimous consent. Discussion of scheduling for architecture issues resolution: –Goal: make the ARC session tomorrow PM1 a joint ARC & TGak session to discuss these issues. The Chair of TGak will ask the Chair of ARC if this can be done.

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 16 Tuesday, 15 March :00 – 18:00, Florence 2304 Room, L1 Discussion of agenda for Thursday morning joint meeting and teleconferences –Teleconferences: March 28, April 18, Aril 25, and May 2, Mondays at 10am Eastern US time –Architecture related to the DS, ESS, etc. Presentations and discussion to resolve comments and improve the TGak Draft –Further discussion of architecture related to 11-14/562r4 lead by Dick Roy. Recess until 08:00 Thursday (or possibly 13:30 Wednesday for joint meeting with ARC)

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 17 Wednesday, 16 March :00 – 18:00, Sicily 2402 Room, L1 Call joint meeting with ARC SC to order –Remote participation allowed for this joint session. See Slide 5. Remote Participants: Philippe Klein (Broadcom), Richard Roy (SRA) Call for essential patents –No response Attendance Recording Reminder Approval of Agenda See 11-16/236r3 See ARC SC minues Recess until 08:00 Thursday

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda Submissions List 11-16/251r2 “GLK ESS Removal” Philippe Klein (Broadcom) 11-16/251r3 “Fig 4-13b & 4-13c” Philippe Klein (Broadcom) March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 18

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 19 Thursday, 17 March :00 – 10:00, Milan Room, L1 Call TGak Joint Meeting with TSN and ARC SC to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Approval of Agenda ak status –Has passed 1 st WG Recirculation Ballot with 91.1% approval, about 340 comments Qbz status –Has had a clean Sponsor Recirculation Ballot. Expect to send to REVCOM today AC status –Being held up by Ethernet assignment which is being held up by lack of a technical consultant to the IEEE RAC.

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 20 Thursday, 17 March :00 – 10:00, Milan Room, L1 Teleconferences discussion ak Teleconferences, joint with 802.1Qbz if mutually convenient: –1 ½ hour teleconferences through the May meeting on March 28, April 18, Aril 25, and May 2 at 10am Eastern US time. –Approved by unanimous consent. Recess TGak until 10:30 today Adjourn ARC SC

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 21 Thursday, 17 March :30 – 12:30, Florence 2304 Room, L1 Call meeting to order Appointment of Secretary Call for essential patents Attendance Recording Reminder Approval of Agenda Presentations and discussion to resolve comments and improve the TGak Draft Recess TGk until 16:00 today

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 22 Thursday, 17 March :00 – 18:00, Florence 2304 Room, L1 Call meeting to order Appointment of Secretary Call for essential patents Attendance Recording Reminder Approval of Agenda Presentations and discussion to resolve comments and improve the TGak Draft.

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 23 Thursday, 17 March :00 – 18:00, Florence 2304 Room, L1 Moved, to approve the comment resolutions in –TBD and direct the Editor to incorporate them into the ak Draft. –Mover: Seconder: –Yes: No: Abstain: Adjourn TGak

doc.: IEEE P /0229r7 Agenda March 2016 Donald Eastlake 3rd, Huawei TechnologiesSlide 24 [Reference Information] ak PAR and Five Criterion –11-12/1207r1, “ GLK Draft PAR” –11-12/1208r0, “ GLK Draft 5C” Draft 2.0 of ak and results of Letter Ballot 212: – P802.11ak_D2.0.pdfhttp:// P802.11ak_D2.0.pdf –11-15/556r21, “TGak LB212 Comments” Draft 2.4 of 802.1Qbz is at – 4.pdfhttp:// 4.pdf Draft 3.0 of 802.1AC-REV is at – rev-d3-0.pdfhttp:// rev-d3-0.pdf (You can access drafts with the group user name and password and vice versa.)